Out and About in Aalborg

Andrew and I have spent the past two weekends in Aalborg, exploring our new city and savoring what warm weather is left in the year. Already the temperatures are starting to drop from the sweltering summer highs (mid-seventies) to the sixties. Maybe that sounds nice to all of you suffering from the heat wave that's been hitting America all summer, but I would have liked at least one day this summer to have broken eighty!

Last weekend, Andrew found a lovely park for us to bike to on the other side of the Limfjord. It had a few historical buildings that were open to visitors, as well as a large garden with various plant varieties, including herbs and flowers and fruit trees to explore.

 

Today, we walked to the Kunsten modern art museum. One of the first things we encountered was a motorized couch that took off when Andrew sat on it. He wants to build one for our home to surprise guests when they come over:

The next room we entered was probably the best in the whole museum. It contained a smaller room lined entirely with mirrors (on the inside and out), which patrons are allowed to enter, one at a time, in their socks, for a period of about five minutes. (Andrew and I both went in twice.)

The room has only a swing inside and was both scary and beautiful.

In addition to their normal collection, they also had a special sculptural exhibit on wax, an exhibit exploring the themes ugly/beautiful, and a large sculpture garden outside that several children were enjoying in their underwear (they were playing in a large fountain designed by the same artist who created Andrew's moving couch). We are excited to go back with the yearly pass I got (which allows me one free guest) as they get new exhibits every few months.

(We aren't all high-brow... we also saw Bridesmaids in theaters yesterday but our pictures from that aren't as good!). Feel free to check out our flickr page for more pictures.